The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-08

! unusual number Of cases, civil and criminal,
were continued for the time. The most i'm
portant civil case was that of G. w. Knight
| VS.. the Savannah Florida and Western
Railway Company, being suit for personal
| injuries. The plaintiff sued for S., 900, and
| the jury after remaining out about twenty
| hours returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
| $500. The case Of the State VS.. William
! Farmer, charged with the offense of false
! swearing attracted considerable attention.
| He was ably defended by Congressman
| Turner, under appointment by the court,
and was acquitted. The court adjourned
| Friday afternoon until tomorrow morning.
| Albany NetUS and Advertiser: A Negro
! is a Negro Just as much as an 1rishman is
an Irishman or a FTenchman is a French
man, and is just as much entitled to have
the name of his race written with big n.
All recognized authorities agree as to the
correctness of this view of the matter, we
believe, but it is the custom of the news
papers of the day to print the name of this
race with little n. This results, we think,
from the common use of the term to de-
| nominate inferiority, or in spirit of re-
proach. Nothing of this sort should ever
override propriety i'll the established rules
of grammar, photography or anything else.
Hereafter the Ne,CS and Advertiser intends
to write Negro with a big n
At Talapoosa on Friday last while the
hands at Rev. J. G. Jackson's saw mill were
stopped for dinner, the mill shed took fire i'll
some unaccountable way and when it was
reached by the hands, who were all near by,
the flames had SO rapidly spread that there
was no chance to save it. Besides the sta
tionary engine, planer and saws, Mr.. Jack
sons traction engine was under part OF the
she'd. The engines and machinery are not
entirely ruined but can be placed in work
ing condition again, although it will take
much time and heavy expense to do it.
Monday Mr.. Jackson had the misfortune to
lose some 10000 or Is, 600 feet of lumber by
fire. This was being Kindred, and acct
dentally caught from the fire under it.
The Clerk of the Superior Court Of Early
county, j. w. Alexander, Jr., is engaged in
work which will prove of inestlmable
value to the county in the future and will
bring him a snug little sum also. He is
preparing an abstract of all the deeds re-
corded in his office, which will be arranged
in numerical indexes i'll suitable books pre-
pared for the purpose. All the deeds etc,
from the year 1921 up to the present time
which concern the county as it now stands
will be recorded in one book, and those
which were in original Early county, but
now in other counties, will be placed in a
separate book The records in the office
show that the first deed was recorded on
May11, 1921, nearly sixty-six years ago, by
Nevin McBryde, Clerk of Superior Court.
Mrs. n B. Glover, of Newman, met with
a serious mishap one day last week She
sent a negro man out in the fields to gather
| few stalks of elder, with which she de-
| signed making mouth wash for one of the
| children. The negro returned in short
| while with good sized bunch of what was
supposed to be elder but for some reason
| Mrs. Glover suspected that the negro had
made mistake and brought thunderwood
instead of the elder, the resemblance being
80 close as to render such mistake not only
possible but very probable. Not satisfied
| with her own inspection, however, she
called on one of her neighbors to assist in
the examination. They finally agreed that
the shrub was elder, and believing it to be
| harmless, Mrs. Glover began washing the
roots preparatory to making the desired tea.
In few minutes her face hands and arms
commenced to swell, and she then realized
that she had committed the very mistake
which she had been so careful to avoid. The
shrub pioved to be thunderwoed.
Deputy Marshal J. J. Rowe, in company
| with H. l.. Cornell, was engaged all last
Wednesday in hunting blockade stills in
| HARRISON county, and succeeded in locating
two About shutdown they went to the
home of Mr.. Cornell, about six miles north
west of Tallapoosa, to spend the night
About midnight they heard persons ap-
preaching the house, and soon discovered a
rounded the building, and at given sigma
fired volley into it, In all about twenty
shots were fired, when the party retired
There were in the house besides the two meL
Mrs. Cornell and six children. The house il
built of planlxs, which were easily pene
trated by the bullets, and the wonder is thai
some one was not killed, but fortunately al
escaped injury. The next morning hand
full of bullets were picked up in the house
| It Is not long since a similar attack wa
made ON Cornell's house, but he was absen
at the time. In December last the house o
Deputy Marshal Rowe'S father was burned
| by incendlaries.
Dublin Gazette: On last Saturday nigh
when the up passenger train passed Harrl
son, on the Wrightsville and Tennille rail
road, some miscreant standing beside tn
, track threw q large iron spike, which strucl
the engine cab near the seat of the engineer
The missile was thrown with such fore
that an indentation the size of the spike wa
made in the wood Engineer Lanier stoppet
| his engine and he and his fireman spranI
+ | to the ground, each armed with pistol
They saw q negro man run down the track
: and gave pursuit The negro soon came III
{ with two others, and wheeling around b
/ fired at the engineer and fireman. VIII
forthwith returned the fire. Some six o
5 seven shots were exchanged and the negroe
fed. Engineer Lanier says that he doe
q | Know WDeUItF Ot uOD elUIleE Oh I'll
f negres were hit. He says, however, that Ii
knows the negro who threw the spike, ant
that he will be arrested and receive the ful
D penalty of the law. Several attempts hav
: been made to wreck trains on this road
, and great vigilance should be exercised il
! endeavoring to arrest the guilty ones an
bring them to justice.
1 Sam Thomas, the negro caught under tn
< CURLING of the well near Milledgevill
!. Thursday, died a most horrible death. TIL
I wooden curbing, in falling, caught Thoma
in snch close quarters that he was obliged {
! stoop over and had no use Of himself at Ill
3 His crying and piteous prayers for he'll
touched the most callous heart. Inch at
. time he felt the water rising, and frequent
= ly yelled to those above him telling Their
! how much the water had risen. Finally
almost overcome from suffocation, cold an
anxiety, he cried out: ''If you don't reac
. me quick ] am gone. The water is now u
: to my chin This exclamation was fol
lowed by gurgling noise, and the poo
, negro was left in water,
/ grave. II was impossible to reach him
! and he will be left there until his final sum
. mons. King Champion went in the sam
: well Friday and had a miraculous escap
from the same fate He went down in
bucket, and on reaching the point wher
, the curbing caved he Kicked up a rock fror
: the side of the we'll lODSng the rock curl